CSW Consulting
CSW Consulting is an arm of FACT/SF that provides artists with direct guidance and input from FACT/SF Artistic Director, Charles Slender-White.
Slender-White has advised past clients on:
Creating live performances and dance films
Devising and executing fundraising campaigns
Throwing effective fundraising events
Identifying potential audience members
Building and launching outreach campaigns
Writing contracts
Writing grants
Writing press releases
Writing mission statements
Writing marketing content
Slender-White. Photo by Connor Radnovich.
Who we serve
Through CSW Consulting, Charles Slender-White (Artistic Director, FACT/SF) offers wide-ranging services to a diversity of clients working in the performing arts.
Our clients are arts producers, makers, and performers. We help them mount productions, work through organizational development, articulate their unique brand and vision, chart out career goals, develop their writing skills, and more. Clients can be based anywhere in the world.
Charles slender-white
Charles Slender-White began his career in arts administration in 2004, providing grant writing and production support for small arts organizations in the SF Bay Area. From 2006-2008 he lived in Russia, pursuing a career as a contemporary dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Then, in 2008 he returned to California to establish the contemporary dance company, FACT/SF. Over the past 13 seasons, Slender-White has guided FACT/SF through 12 fundraising campaigns, 9 fundraising events, 3 international tours, 4 regional tours, and more than 300 performances. With FACT/SF, Slender-White launched an annual commissioning program for local choreographers (JuMP), a weekly gathering of choreographers (Choreographers Have Coffee), a regional touring initiative (PORT), an annual summer workshop (FACT/SF Summer Dance Lab), and many other programs aimed at supporting the field and cultivating community.
As lead grant writer for FACT/SF, Slender-White has secured funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, US Department of State, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Wattis Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Movement Research, Zellerbach Family Foundation, CA$H Grants, Lighting Artists in Dance Awards, and the Columbia Foundation.
Through both his independent work and his work with FACT/SF, Slender-White has developed a robust local and international network of colleagues. Along with many cities in the United States, Slender-White has worked and studied in Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong, Russia, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Latvia, Poland, France, Serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, and Australia.
Additionally, Slender-White has served as a guest on career development panels at UC Berkeley and Cal State East Bay, as a delegate to the Nomad Dance Advocacy Conference in Serbia, and as a guest artist at the University of Calgary, University of San Francisco, Yekaterinburg University of the Humanities, Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University, Derida Dance Center, and the American Dance Festival. Slender-White frequently blogs about his work with FACT/SF, and has been published in Dancers’ Group’s InDance and on the blog, Stance on Dance. In 2009, Slender-White worked as an English Language editor for the University of Warsaw.
Charles Slender-White graduated with honors from UC Berkeley with degrees in English Literature and Dance & Performance Studies.
Contact
Charles Slender-White
cslender@factsf.org
For all inquiries